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G. E. WELLS. BUTTONHOLE BOUQUET HOLDER.

No. 512,779. Patented ail. 16, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. WELLS, OF WALTON, NEW YORK.

BUTTONHOLE-BOUQU ET HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,779, dated. January16, 1894.

Application filed May 13, l 893.

To an whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. WELLS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Walton, in the county of Delaware and State of New York,have invented a new and Improved Buttonhole-Bouquet Holder for HoldingBouquets of Different Sizes; and the following is a full, clear, andexact description of my invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe arts of metal-working to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to improvements in bouquet holders, and the objectsare, first, to hold button-hole bouquets of different sizes and hide thestemsof the flowers without the use of paper or strings of any kind;second,to fasten the same securely to ones clothing without the use of aseparate pin, and, third, to make the holder ornamental as well asuseful. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of the holder.Fig. 2 is a side sectional view, and Fig. 3 the spring.

The holder consists of two metal jaws with their edges bent at rightangles, the front jaw being a little wider than the back one so that itcloses over, and they are held together with a rivet which also acts asa hinge, and allows the upper ends of the jaws to open and close. Theheavy lines inFig. 2 show the jaws closed, and the dotted lines, open toreceive the houquet.

The spring,Fig. 3, is a piece of coiled wire which passes around therivet, and its ends press the lower ends of the jaws apart, which Serial110.474.165. (No model.)

closes the upper ends and they hold the bouquet firmly. The spring isshown in position in Fig. 2 with the rivet passing through the coil.

Ordinary pin-ton gs are soldered to the back of the back jaw for thepurpose of fastening the holder to ones clothing.

Fig. 1 shows the front of the holder with the point of thepintongs-projecting below the jaws, and an ornament on the front, whichmay be of any artistic design without affecting the principle involved.

The holder is operated by pressing the lower ends of the jaws together,which opens the upper ends to receive the bouquet, as

shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2 which is held firmly by the jawswhen the pressure is GEORGE E. WELLS.

Witnesses:

GEO. O. MEAD, J OHN OLMSTEAD.

